Medieval Dynasty

The game is great. Buying it on GOG the worse idea, since the game is not updated here, and will get the most major updates only in a few month or years. Yeah, even if you bought the game earliest as possible in early access, no one cares, apparently. (I'll edit this review if it changes)

As a big thank you to the people who supported the Early Access on GoG, Toplitz/RenderCube no longer cares about the GoG version, which is now hopelessly outdated and lacks important key features (coop). Definitely my last Toplitz game on any platform...

Medieval Dynasty tries to be a lot of things at the same time and ends up with nothing feeling really good. Pros: Environment looks nice. Buildings look nice. Cons: Concept of TIME: you never have enough of it, while the game makes you waste the little you have. Information: The game tells you nothing that matters for a strategy game. You need to alt-tab to the net to find it there. Building: not possible to zoom out. Fumbling with your building-to-be huge right in front of you, wasting time to find the right spot for it. After a while I startet first searching for a place, then reload and place it. Not what I would actually call "playing a game". Quests: You nearly never know what people want from you before you agree to it. So may be you find out afterwards there is no time again until the end of season to hunt the animals down (because you first need to find them and that takes TIME). Reloading after taking a not finishable quest became a part of my "gameplay", and not a good one. NPCs: are mostly silent, not even greeting you with a sentence or two. Everybody moves constantly around, changing clothes by season, forcing you to rush through the villages searching for the not exactly marked merchants (because you have no TIME to waste), and this is simply not fun at all.

On Steam the 2.x update has already been out since the start of December. Other store fronts will have to wait until Q1 or Q2 2024. Aside from the Coop probably going through Steams infrastructure - for which the easy fix would've been to release 2.x for other storefronts with the message "hey, for technical reasons you're not getting the coop" - I see no reason for this aside from being either lazy or hoping that players that bought it on gog will now buy it on Steam.

Until the update on steam, don't bother. It is not obvious that it ever will be updated on gog. Very poor media / customer relations In my opinion.